Schedule

Thursday March 27, 2008

0810-0840: Coffee and registration
0840-0900: Introduction
Gang Bao, Director of MCIAM, MSU

Opening remarks
Estelle McGroarty, Assistant Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies, MSU

   
Session 1. Chair: Yang Wang, MSU
0900-0950: New Algorithms in Information Science
Stan Osher, UCLA.
1000-1010: Coffee Break
   
Session 2. Chair: Fariba Fahroo, AFOSR
1010-1100: Resonance Problems in Linear and Nonlinear Photonics
Michael I. Weinstein, Columbia University
1110-1140: Coherent semiclassical transport models for thin quantum barriers
Shi Jin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1145-1215: A New Spectral-Galerkin Method for High-Dimensional PDEs: Algorithms, Analysis and Applications
Jie SHEN, Purdue University
   
1220-1400 Lunch break
   
Session 3. Chair: C.-W. Shu, Brown University
1400-1450: Shock Wave Propagation in Tissue and Bone
Randall J. LeVeque, University of Washington
1500-1530: Some recent advances on identifiability in inverse obstacle scatterings
Jun Zou, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
1535-1550: Coffee Break
   
Session 4. Chair: Jianliang Qian, MSU
1550-1620: The Ebb & Flow of Multi-scale Modeling at The Dow Chemical Company
P. Kip Mercure, The Dow Chemical Company
1625-1655: Multiscale Theory of Fluctuating Interfaces
Dimitri D. Vvedensky, Imperial College, London SW7 2BZ
1700-1730: Shape Optimization for Elliptic Eigenvalue Problems
Chiu-Yen Kao, Ohio State University
1735-1805: Diffractive optical properties of metallic micro-structures
Faouzi Triki, Universite Joseph Fourier, France
1810-1830: Break
   
Session 5. Chair: Andrew Christlieb, MSU
1830-1930: Poster session and open bar at Kellogg Center
1930-2030: Dinner at Kellogg Center
   

Friday March 28, 2008

0810-0840: Coffee
Session 1. Chair: Gang Bao, MSU
0840-0930: Applications of Gaussian Beams
James Ralston, UCLA
0940-0950: Coffee Break
   
Session 2. Chair: Leo Kemple, MSU
0950-1040: Multiscale computations for flow and transport in heterogeneous porous media
Tom HOU, CalTech
1050-1120: Rapid Computation of Elastic Energy Differences with Application to Heteropitaxial Growth
Peter Smereka, University of Michigan
1125-1155: Grid Based Particle Method For Interface Problems
Hong-Kai Zhao, UC Irvine
1200-1330: Lunch break
   
Session 3. Chair: Andrew Christlieb, MSU
1330-1420: Multiscale Methods Based on the Discontinuous Galerkin Scheme
Chi-Wang Shu, Brown University
1430-1500: Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for MHD, Two-Fluid Plasma, and Beyond
James Rossmanith, University of Wisconsin - Madison
1505-1535: Electromagnetic Particle-In-Cell simulations of plasmas with (Adaptive) Mesh Refinement.
Reduction of the range of scale in a Lorentz boosted frame.
Jean-Luc Vay, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
1540- : Adjourn.
   
1610-1700: Applied Math Seminar at A304 Wells Hall.
High Order Image Reconstruction from Fourier Data
Anne Gelb, Arizona State University


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